Cyanogenmod on Desire HD

Its been almost 10 months since I got my hands on HTC Desire HD phone and had got a decent update to 2.3 from HTC site. But the only issue was the battery hogging HTC Sense and apps like stocks, weather eating my battery and 3G data. Who cares about the weather in bangalore? Just go out and enjoy the sun / rains..

Ok coming back to rooting the phone.. It just took me few google searches to decide the best custom rom in android market was cyanogenmod. For more info of custom roms visit – http://www.cyanogenmod.com/. To install the custom rom’s you need root access to your phone. HTC provides boot loader for certain phones (http://htcdev.com/bootloader) but I was not going to wait for them to release for my desire HD. So decided to take a risk, void my warranty and go ahead with unlocking the phone.

Warning: Please note you are doing this at your own risk! There is a high chance that this might damage your device, or make it inoperable.

THIS GUIDE IS PURELY FOR EDUCATION

What you need :

HTC Sync (or ADB drivers)

Desire HD with build number 1.72 or higher (would be downgraded to 1.32)

Use Volume up/down keys on the HTC Desire HD for navigation and Power key for confirmation. Select Fastboot to flash the 1.32.405.6 firmware.

Wait now till the downgrade is complete. Next step is to unlock the phone and gain root access. To root the phone we need visionary software and it is placed in the downgrade folder. File : com.modaco.visionaryplus.r14.apk. Copy this file onto your phone and run this apk file using File Manager or any software of your choice which can run apk files. Once the visionary is running follow these steps :

Check “Set system r/w after root”

click Temproot now wait patiently till it finishes.

once you have successfully Temprooted

Click PermRoot the device and wait for it to restart the Device.

Once you are done you have root access to your phone. The next step is to S-off the device.

Open the the Desire hd radio tool.

Select Radio S-Off and run it!!

Now you have an android 2.2 build 2.32 phone with root access which is ready for installation of custom roms 🙂

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